While I Have Pedro. John Chesterman
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in silly hats and we’re both smiling. It was taken about three years ago. His skin is a bit darker than mine. His parents came from Spain. I lay in bed that night and did an exercise that Pedro told me about. He says think of how bad something’s been, and then think of the good things. He calls this drinking half a glass.
OK, I thought, today I wanted to go and see the police by myself, and I did. I mightn’t have been able to tell them what I wanted them to know, but I was sure that wouldn’t be the last time I needed to find the police. And it wasn’t.
As I lay there I suddenly had a thought. What if tomorrow was a special day for a church? Another one would be lit. I turned on my light and grabbed my Diary of Important Dates off the shelf and opened it to June 17. Thankfully, that day wasn’t a special religious day, according to my diary. Then I flicked through other days. I didn’t know there were so many saints and so many religious days. For instance, I’d never heard of St Bartholomew, but he had his special day on August 24th. I went through each day of the year in my Diary of Important Dates and found all these religious holidays. There were 33 saints’ days listed. The list went on and on. Some days even had two saints’ days on the one day, which is probably a bad thing for the saints. Like if you’re a twin and you have to share your birthday. For instance, St Philip and St James both share May 1st. I also realised something else that was important. There had been six special days that had come and gone between April 25th and June 16th. So my fire lighter wasn’t lighting fires on every holy day. Only some. That’s if my newspapers could be trusted. Which I believed they could.
That night I went to sleep knowing at least that the next day would not be a day when the fire lighter would be switched on. But I also made a note to find out whether there was a St John’s church nearby, since June 24th was the next special day according to my Diary of Important Dates.
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